A Case Study in Sludge Handling
When the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority (WVSA) converted its operation to a secondary treatment plant in 1988, something important was missing. That something was a method to handle...
Chemical Sludge Treatment?A Way of the Future
Recently, chemical treatment of municipal sludges has become an alternative to incineration, composting, and digestion. The commercial processes have evolved into three categories of chemical...
Environmental Impacts of Drought in the Tennessee Valley
Beginning in June 1984, the Tennessee Valley region entered the most severe, extended period of drought since record keeping began in 1890. The historical annual average rainfall across...
Allocating Water Among Urban Users During Droughts
Beginning in the spring of 1987, California has been besieged by a drought that, as of this writing, has not yet abated. In response to this unprecedented drought, the San Francisco Water...
The Mission of the Corps of Engineers, South Pacific Division, in Hazardous/Toxic Waste (HTW)
This paper discusses the various roles and relationships that the South Pacific Division has for HTW activities within the division's four-state area (CA, AZ, NV, and UT)....
California Standards for Characterizing Contamination and Assessing Risk from Hazardous Waste Sites
The Toxic Substances Control Program (TSCP) of the Department of Health Services is responsible for managing California's hazardous waste program. A primary goal of TSCP is...
Ground Water Treatment System Using UV/H2O2 at Sacramento Army Depot
Ground water beneath the Sacramento Army Depot (SAAD) is being extracted and treated as part of a ground water remediation program. The extraction system is achieving contaminant capture...
The State Water Board's New Monitoring Requirements
In coordination with Department of Health Services' (DHS) efforts to gain 'State Authorization' to administer the federal hazardous waste management...
Ground Water Recharge in Central and West Coast Basins
The agencies responsible for the Central and West Coast Basins of Los Angeles County, California have managed their ground water supplies by the artificial recharge of reclaimed and imported...
Effect on Soil and Groundwater Due to Long-Term Land Treatment
A comprehensive assessment of the environmental impact of a full-scale, operating overland flow (OLF) land treatment system was made of the Campbell Soup, Inc. OLF system in Paris, Texas....
Proposed California Regulations for Groundwater Recharge with Reclaimed Municipal Wastewater
The proposed California regulations for groundwater recharge with reclaimed municipal wastewater are presented with the basis and rationale for key requirements. The treatment and recharge...
The Greening of Corporate America
Since the decade of the 80's has seen both the most stringent environment regulations as well as the most destructive environmental incidents in our history, most American...
Implementation of Agricultural Reuse in Florida
In mid 1986, the city of Sarasota was faced with the problem of removing a discharge of secondary treated wastewater from Sarasota Bay. The city embarked on a comprehensive evaluation...
Electronic Computation
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Composting: Computing the Right Recipe
A pinch of this and a pinch of that is an adequate instruction for most good cooks. But for composting, facility managers need a recipe that specifies the right ingredients and exact amount,...
Setting Standards in San Diego
Most engineering firms have developed specifications and standards that become the bible for project-related design issues�and no two firms are the same. On complex, large-scale projects...
Breaking Down the Barriers
The structural engineering of multistory buildings is a complex and time-consuming chore, but new design and analysis tools can greatly simplify the task. The article traces the development...
The Impact of Drought on Hydropower Generation-Case Study of Bureau of Reclamation Hydropower Plant
The paper explores the effects of extended drought on power generation at Shasta hydropower plant, a Bureau of Reclamation facility in Northern California. Statistical measures of water...
Economic Evaluation of Minimum Flow at Rockton
The Rockton Hydroelectric Project is a two-unit, 1,100 kW plant operated by South Beloit Water, Gas & Electric Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wisconsin Power & Light...
A Case for Modernizing the Funding and Repayment of Regional Water/Power Projects
Several regional water/power projects authorized by Congress remain unfunded and therefore uncompleted year after year. In this paper examples of such uncompleted projects are examined....
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